US Patent Issued to Magna Closures on Feb. 3 for "Closure latch assembly with crash unlock mechanism using single electric motor" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,494, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Magna Closures Inc. (Newmarket, Canada).

"Closure latch assembly with crash unlock mechanism using single electric motor" was invented by Roman Cetnar (Newmarket, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure latch assembly includes a ratchet and a pawl, with the ratchet being moveable between a striker capture position and a striker release position and the pawl being moveable between a ratchet holding position, whereat the ratchet is maintained in the striker capture position, a ratchet release position, whereat the ratchet is biased toward the striker release position. A power actuator opera...